Women in NHS set for massive pay rises and six years back pay?

In 1997 Unison launched an equal pay claim for workers at the Carlisle Hospitals NHS Trust. This sought recognition of equality of work value, in various groups, with colleagues in predominantly male professions. Nurses, catering assistants, clerical officers, sewing machinists, porters and telephonists were compared with NHS craftsmen, joiners, building labourers, maintenance assistants and craftsmen supervisors in the same region.